Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...most radical part of the new school's program is the disappearance of Latin and Greek, and the attempt to make translations of the classics serve the same purpose. Modern languages, science, industry, and the domestic arts will have the most important places in the new curriculum. The orthodox leaders of the present educational methods already have expressed their horror at the introduction of these innovations...
...Museum 15 volumes, handsomely bound, comprising the various catalogues descriptive of his collections. Four of his volumes constitute the "Catalogue of Drawings"; there are three volumes of the "Catalogue of Pictures of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, Italian, Spanish and Modern Schools"; three volumes of the "Catalogue of Greek, Roman and Renaissance Bronzes"; four volumes of the "Catalogue of Miniatures," and one volume of the "Catalogue of the Bennet Collection of Manuscripts...
...college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics is not the first aim of college, why is the football coach paid three times, four times, the salary of the professor of Greek...
...Astronomy 1 Harvard 5 Chemistry 6 Sever 5 English 24 Sever 17, 18 Fine Arts 3a Robinson 1 ft. Fine Arts 9a Fogg Lec. Rm. Geology 4 New Lec. Hall, Harvard 6 Geology 10 Sever 6 German 2a Sever 35, 36 German 26a Sever 36 Government 9 Emerson D Greek A Sever 30 History 2 Sever 6 History 23a Sever 18 History 30a Upper Mass. History 33 Upper Mass. Latin 15 Sever 30 Mathematics 22 Sever 29 Music 3 SeverSever 23, 24 Philosophy 17a Emerson D Physics B Zool. Lee. Rm. Physics 12a Sever 30 Semitic 17 Sever 29 Spanish...